The spacecraft flew within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the solar surface to "touch the sun" on Christmas Eve. NASA's Parker Solar Probe is alive! Two days after a historic ...
The probe has already braved coronal mass ejections, major blowups that spew the sun’s plasma out into the solar system. The mission team is hoping for stormier solar seas that might illuminate ...
Space can surprise even those who spend their lives studying it. People often think of our solar system as just a few planets and a bunch of empty space. Yet new observations suggest we have been ...
This improves the power per area and therefore fewer modules are needed to achieve the same solar system power output. This breakthrough has the potential to further reduce the cost of solar energy, ...